The National Road

                                                                                         

Brick Paved National Road  1920's

Top photo is Cryss in abandoned passenger train -  In 2022, we completed the Route 40 Project. Exploring the Ohio portion of the Old "National Road" from the Pennsylvania border to the Indiana border. We done this in several trips over the summer. There are still some remaining sections of the original brick paved road, a railroad depot with an abandoned passenger train and a few remnants of motels and gas stations that once thrived along what was then the nation's main east-west route. Built between 1811 and 1834, the national road was 620 miles long and connected Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois. In the 1920’s it became what is now US Route 40.